Research On Entrepreneurial Status Of Postgraduate

21^st century is the century when knowledge is a key component in the economy development. The entrepreneurship, like an engine, is an important motivation to develop the knowledge economy. In some way, the era of knowledge economy is the era of innovative undertaking. With this background, many educational policies in China encourage graduate students to actively plunge into entrepreneurship, and provide them with many opportunities, but the status of graduate students in the entrepreneurship is not satisfactory. Therefore, "the graduate students' innovative undertaking" has become a research topic which has gained wide attention from our society and education.As the basis of system thinking, we did a detail literature study on university students entrepreneurial movement process and the current practical problems of entrepreneurship. At the same time, we believe that graduate entrepreneurship is also an area of social development and maturity, thus this needs a comparative analysis on start-up policies and incentives of United States (developed country), India (developing country) and some other countries. Using the comparative analysis between these countries, we hope to find the inspiration and reference to analyze the current reality of China. This study used policy analysis, questionnaires, case studies and interviews with expert advice, and other methods. Questionnaire targets are full-time masters students of Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East China Normal University and Tongji University, which are all "985" universities in Shanghai. Many majors in arts and sciences are surveyed and there are 186 effective samples in total. We hope that through this large number of samples, we can confirm commonness significance of some typical cases to enhance reliability and validity of the study.On the basis of accumulation and design of Chinese and foreign literature above all the research objects are divided into two groups. One group is the graduate students who experienced the entrepreneurship in person. The investigation has been carried on in the following aspects: the experience, the condition and the motivation of their undertaking, so as to show the real situation of the graduate students' entrepreneurship. The other group is the graduate students who mainly emphasize on the theories of entrepreneurship. The investigation of this group focuses on the perception, the awareness, and the ability of entrepreneurship so as to reveal the difficulty of the graduate students' entrepreneurship. The result shows that many graduate students rely too much on the "employment distribution", to have the undertaking spirit and the sense of innovation, to undertake the risk of undertaking. Furthermore, their limited knowledge from classrooms can hardly meet the comprehensive requirement of the entrepreneurship. At the same time, the chance of raising the necessary venture capital, "the first fund", is little. So for most of them, the innovative undertaking remains only "an idea" instead of "an action". The author of this thesis believe that the obstacle of the entrepreneurship is: the policies to encourage the graduate students' entrepreneurship look impressive but impractical; the mechanism of risk investment is incomplete. Chinese traditional culture lacks the capacity to encourage individuals to take risks, and also ignores the training of students' ability and individuality. All these factors lead to the abortion of the graduate students' entrepreneurship. Due to this, the final chapter of this paper make recommendations to promote entrepreneurship awareness and ability of graduate students, and protect entrepreneurship rights of graduate students on three respects: designing policies to encourage the innovative undertaking, the cultivation of the innovative undertaking culture, and the reform of the management pattern for the graduate student education. I hope that my thinking can make contribution to this important issue of China.